ECS L4S5A Review (5)

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ECS L4S5A Review (5)
Overclocker 22 Mar 2001

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Benchmarking

We conduct the usual tests on the setup with the following configuration :

Test System:

Intel Pentium 4 ES 1.5Ghz
Thermaltake heatink/fan
IBM 13.5GB 7200 RPM HD
MSI Geforce Ti200
256MB Nanya DDR333 DDR CAS 2.5
IBM 20G ATA-133 HD

Quake3 Arena

Further investigation was done based on two popular gaming software DroneZ and Quake3 Arena. The following results are tabulated for reference.

Quake 3 results are taken based on default settings with no changes made to the configuration files.

Intel Pentium 4 1.5G ES

We benchmark the board using a MSI Geforce3 Ti200 graphics card with the latest detonator 21.83 drivers. As this is a new category we added in our benchmark tests, we only have benchmarks from the i845D boards to compare with.

Q3 Demo1

	ECS L4S5A SD7-533 SiS645 DDR333	ABIT SD7-533 SiS645 DDR 200/266	ABIT SD7-533 SiS645 DDR 200/333	MSI 845 Ultra(i845 DDR 200/266	DFI NB70- SC (i845 DDR 200/266	ABIT BD7 RAID 200/266
Quake3 Demo1 Fastest	232.8fps	226.9fps	235.9fps	229.2fps	222.4fps	229.8fps
Quake3 Demo1 Hi Quality	193.3fps	190.7fps	192.5fps	188.9fps	184.4fps	189.1fps

Q3 Demo2

Quake3 Demo2 Fastest	231.9fps	227.1fps	234.4fps	228.9fps	221.6fps	229.6fps
Quake3 Demo2 HiQuality	196.3fps	194.9fps	196.3fps	191.8fps	186.7fps	190.8fps

*Q3 results are recorded based on Fastest (512x384x16bots) and Hi-Quality (800x600x32bits)

Comparing the results, the L4S5A seems to be quite a good speed contender. If we were to compare FSB to FSB, it's slightly slower at 99.59Mhz instead of the exact 100.00Mhz when operating at DDR333 async mode. The ABIT SD7-533 also runs at 99.75Mhz. The small difference in FSB sometimes do results in some minor differences in results. I would say they are comparable. When the SiS645 boards operate at DDR333 mode, they all overtake the i845D boards in terms of performance.

FSB

ECS L4S5A = 99.59Mhz (200/333)
ABIT SD7-533 = 100.9Mhz (200/266), 99.75 (200/333)
ALi ALADDiN P4 Ref = 100.00Mhz (200/266)
MSI 645Ultra = 100.7Mhz (200/266), 100.1Mhz (200/333)
ECS P4S5A = 100.00Mhz
Sis645 Ref = 100.67 (200/266), 100.9 (200/333)
Shuttle AV40R = 101.25Mhz
2themax EP-4B2A = 101.0Mhz
ABIT TH7-II RAID = 100.00Mhz
DFI NB70-SC = 102.0Mhz
MSI 845 Ultra=100.94Mhz

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